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Jiang Bo, a dolphin at Nanjing’s Underwater World park in eastern China has had life saving surgery after swallowing a volleyball while playing in his pool. Concerned doctors initially called upon the medical expertise of Six-foot-four (1.95m) Meng Da, a professional basketball player to try and reach down Jiang Bo’s mouth and pull it out.

Doctors finally made the logical decision to airlift Jiang Bo to Nanjing Medical University, where doctors attached a medical steel wire to the ball and finally yanked it out after a three-hour procedure. I think next time it might be better to call in the medical experts, not the expertise of a basketball player.